Quotes About Catania

The death of an Italian tailor might not be calamitous in Catania or Cagliari, but the loss to Soho is immeasurable. We don't have Italian tailors we can spare here.

When Lawrence came to Taormina, Verga was living in Catania, a few miles further down the eastern Sicilian coast, and in the autumn of 1921, when his writings first attracted Lawrence's attention, he was an octogenarian with only a few months left to live. Shortly after Verga's death in January 1922, Lawrence wrote to a correspondent in New York that 'Poor old Verga went and died exactly as I was going to see him in Catania. But he was 82 years old.

Bisogna poi aggiungere che la storia più importante di Catania non è quella dei costumi, del commercio, degli edifici e delle rivolte, ma la storia degli sguardi. La vita della città è piena di avvenimenti, amicizie, risse, amori, insulti, solo negli sguardi che corrono fra uomini e donne; nel resto, è povera e noiosa.

The Sicilian people were very friendly. Once we drove the Germans out I got to see Catania, where every house had homemade spaghetti drying on the clothesline. After the war Russell Bufalino liked the fact that I went right through his town. My